GalleryOscars: best actress nominations

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Mon 3 Mar 2014, 4:42 PM AEDT

Australian Cate Blanchett said she was "ecstatic" after learning of her best actress nomination for her performance in the Woody Allen film Blue Jasmine. Blanchett was famously pipped for a best actress Oscar in 1998 by Gwyneth Paltrow. Blanchett won a best supporting actress Oscar in 2004 for The Aviator.

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This year was the first Oscar nomination in the best actress category for Amy Adams, after four previous nods in the best supporting actress category.

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Meryl Streep missed out this year, but she has previously won three Oscars and has been nominated 18 times for an Academy Award - 15 times in the best actress category.

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This was Sandra Bullock's second Oscar nomination in the best actress category, having won the golden statue in 2010 for her work in The Blind Side.

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This was Dame Judi Dench's fifth nomination in the best actress category, she did not attend this year's ceremony as she was filming movie in India. She won a best supporting actress Oscar in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love.

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Find out more about the women who were nominated for an Oscar in the best actress category.